Fengtao Fan
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
Biography
After revealing the assembly process of zeolite catalysts by in situ UV Raman spectroscopy, I received my Ph.D. in 2010 under the guidance of Prof. Can Li, from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics(DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS). At the same year, I joined DICP as an associate Professor through the talent selection plan for the outstanding PhD graduates.
I started my scientific career by thinking about how to reveal the charge separation process in artificial synthesis process through characterization techniques innovation. In 2012, after being a visiting scholar in Prof. Bert Weckhuysen`s group at Utrecht university, I came back to DICP and developed Spatially Resolved Surface Photovoltage Spectroscopy (SRSPS) to “see” the charge distribution on the surface and interface of photocatalyst at nano scale.
In 2015, I was promoted to Full Professor at DICP and now I am the Chair Professor at DICP and also the Vice Director of State Key Laboratory of Catalysis(SKLC) at DICP. My research interest lies in heterogenous catalysis, photocatalysis and electrocatalysis, with a focus on understanding the fundamentals of these processes by advanced space- and time- resolved spectroscopy.
RSC affiliations
Editorial board, ChemComm